Video, 3D Canvas and File I/O: Repeat!

We’ve done it again - we’ve made a new build available of Opera with support for video, file I/O and 3D canvas. If you enjoyed the builds we released last time, then you should upgrade - you’ll enjoy the increased stability of this build, along with other things like low-bandwidth mail mode, and various security upgrades (These new builds are based on the Opera 9.62 stable release).

If you haven’t tried video, now might be a good time. Whatever the case, click on these links and get cracking:

These builds are officially experimental so may contain bugs. Please remember to back up your data before installing any experimental build. (Remember to back up your data anyway. Computers don’t last forever).

HTML 5 video

If you’re not sure what this is all about, it is all about being able to put videos on the web as easily as this:

<video controls="controls" src="some.ogg">
Better to have backup content in case <a href="some.ogg">your video file</a>
doesn’t work for the user. Perhaps they don’t have a nice Ogg-playing browser.
Perhaps they don’t have the bandwidth for video. Perhaps they can’t see it anyway,
or just choose not to. You can add a <img src="some.jpg" alt="random picture">
in the backup content, of course.
</video>

File I/O

Second, this release is all about being able to build applications that can run a real file system - one the user can see and play with within the application the same as they would on a local machine. This is achieved using the File I/O API we released earlier this year.